Our Research

The Eco­nom­ic & Indus­try Update cov­ers gen­er­al eco­nom­ic data, hous­ing mar­ket data, and home improve­ment mar­ket data.

Begin­ning in 2022 HIRI launched this quar­ter­ly track­er, the spir­i­tu­al suc­ces­sor of the Con­sumer Project Plan­ning Sur­vey done pre­vi­ous­ly. Like the Con­sumer Project Plan­ning sur­vey, a pri­ma­ry goal of this sur­vey is to deter­mine what types of projects and activ­i­ties home­own­ers are plan­ning on under­tak­ing with­in the next three months.

In part­ner­ship with The Farnsworth Group, HIRI has devel­oped a month­ly track­er, sur­vey­ing home­wn­ers to learn what they see, think, and are doing right now in the home improve­ment arena.

In part­ner­ship with The Farnsworth Group, HIRI has devel­oped a month­ly track­er where we talk to Pro to learn what they see, think, and are doing right now in the home improve­ment arena.

The Eco­nom­ic & Indus­try Update cov­ers gen­er­al eco­nom­ic data, hous­ing mar­ket data, and home improve­ment mar­ket data.

Prod­uct cat­e­go­ry info­graph­ics pro­vid­ed to HIRI mem­bers through a spe­cial part­ner­ship with TraQ­line (The Steven­son Company).

See HIR­I’s update on cur­rent macro­eco­nom­ic envi­ron­ment, what impacts it is hav­ing on the home improve­ment sec­tor, and a spe­cial look at what is cur­rent­ly hap­pen­ing in the con­struc­tion labor markets.

HIR­I’s US Ref­er­ence Guide is a 200+ page guide of at-your-fin­ger­tips-facts relat­ed to home improve­ment. The guide con­tains sec­tions on home improve­ment mar­ket size, nation­al pop­u­la­tion, employ­ment, income, con­sumer expen­di­tures, and housing.

The Eco­nom­ic & Indus­try Update cov­ers gen­er­al eco­nom­ic data, hous­ing mar­ket data, and home improve­ment mar­ket data.

This report presents esti­mates and fore­casts of the mar­ket for home improve­ment prod­ucts in Cana­da. Fore­casts include Con­sumer and Pro­fes­sion­al pur­chase esti­mate, both total and by Province and mer­chan­dise line.

Cana­di­an Spe­cial Inter­est Group Mem­bers please join us as Scott Hazel­ton and Arlene Kish dis­cuss the Cana­da econ­o­my and fore­casts for the size of the home improve­ment prod­ucts market.

Sup­ply chain con­straints, prod­uct pric­ing and extend­ed time­lines are an ongo­ing prob­lem for Pro con­trac­tors. Learn some insights into what the Pros are see­ing on the ground-lev­el with this release of the Con­trac­tor Top­i­cal survey.